Re: how to call lua scripts from C/C++ without recompiling each time?

[Peter Shook <pshook@...>]

This may help:

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2003-07/msg00293.html

- Peter


Kevin Meinert wrote:

> In my game engine, I'm loading lua scripts using luaL_loadfile, then, to 
> execute, I run lua_pcall.  If I execute the script again with lua_pcall, 
> it fails unless I call luaL_loadfile again before lua_pcall...
>
> I'm trying to avoid recompiling everytime I run a script, I'd like to run 
> pure bytecode each time.
>
> So, what I'm trying to use is lua_ref and lua_pushref, but lua_pushref 
> isn't defined in my copy of the 5.0 code from lua.org.  I'm not even sure 
> this will work, but it looked promising.
>
>
> Any ideas how to call lua scripts from C/C++ without recompiling each 
> time?